South Lake Tahoe resident Scott Enerson is expected to spend seven years in prison after pulling a gun on a fellow patron at Whiskey Dick’s bar. Enerson has pleaded guilty to assault with a firearm in the June 2012 incident. The enhancement to the felony charge is what is sending him to state prison. Formal […]
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By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review Journal CARSON CITY – Just because you live in Las Vegas, Caliente or even Jarbidge doesn’t mean you can’t keep in touch with nearly everything that happens at the 2013 Legislature. In fact, if you become adroit in handling all the features of the legislative website – leg.state.nv.us – […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with El Dorado County in a case brought forward by the U.S. Forest Service. The issue is over costs related to the cleanup of the old Meyers Landfill. The county doesn’t believe it should have to pay for the cost overruns from the Forest […]
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By Martin Griffith, AP The Nevada wildlife commission has rejected a request by animal rights groups to ban the use of dogs for hunting bears. The commission, at a meeting Friday in Las Vegas, voted 6-2 to deny the petition filed by six organizations, including NoBearHuntNV, the BEAR League and the Nevada Humane Society. According […]
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By Phillip Reese and Anita Creamer, Sacramento Bee California’s long run as a boom state will sputter to an end as population growth rates consistently fall below 1 percent a year in the coming decades, according to state Department of Finance projections released Thursday. The trend has already started. For the last several years, more […]
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By Bill Saporito, Time My cable bill arrived the other day with an unexpected $20-a-month increase for the same package I’ve been getting for years. A cheery customer-service representative explained that my discount for bundled services had expired and, although she would truly like to, she couldn’t restore it. When I mouthed off about hoofing […]
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By Lauren Weber, Wall Street Journal The American workplace is about to get grayer. Nearly two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 45 and 60 say they plan to delay retirement, according to a report to be released Friday by the Conference Board. That was a steep jump from just two years earlier, when the […]
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By AP The U.S. Forest Service has issued a warning after citing four snowmobilers for illegally riding in a designated federal wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada. The snowmobilers were cited for riding last week in the Mokelumne Wilderness on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The wilderness is located in Alpine County west of Markleeville, and […]
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By Mike Luery, KCRA-TV California taxpayers shelled out hundreds of dollars for the apparent unauthorized use of a police helicopter at a high school football game. The helicopter incident involved a high school homecoming event that top law enforcement supervisors at the Department of Justice knew nothing about, KCRA 3 has learned. The incident took […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee James Leslie Karis Jr., a convicted killer whose court case became so tangled in death penalty politics that he was sentenced to death twice, died early Thursday at San Quentin’s death row. Karis, 61, was found unresponsive inside the cell where he was housed alone and later pronounced dead at […]
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